Mitsuki - Art School Journey (+ Animations)

[daceronine]

It looks great! Though my head is already spinning from all those layers

[gregorya]

This looks pretty good.
There are so many layers. Good luck with the animation. There looks like so many steps to take.

[snakker]

Damn, that's some complex work, I commend your efforts mate. You're really doing a good job envisioning things and placing them into thumbnails to sell your story

cheers!

[mitsuki-youko]

Thank you @patrycja.lerch, @daceronine, @gregorya and @snakker

Been a bit busy with life stuff so not as much time to draw..

Decided to do a bit of animation practice just for fun and for warm up (watched this vid for inspo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hYtN46s-Lk&pp=ygUSYW5pbWF0aW9uIHdhcm0gdXBz)

Then made this:

[daceronine]

Honestly that looks great! The little deformations and how it stretches makes it look so fluid and alive!

[patrycja.lerch]

Looks great! I like how it moves

[gabiadriart]

Love the animation! Like @daceronine said, the stretching of the ball makes it look so fluid and alive! Gives it that extra touch

[uggievang]

Nice love how fluid it looks

[gregorya]

Nice work on the animation I do like the squash and stretch.

[mitsuki-youko]

Thanks @daceronine @patrycja.lerch @gabiadriart @uggievang and @gregorya

A wip view of one of my 4 fancy scifi anims.. was iffy on the bg but after adding some lighting it turned out realllllly nicely imo!!

still lots to do for just this one but its moving along nicely

[patrycja.lerch]

Oh the background is great! Love this lighting

[daceronine]

Ohh that BG looks really nice! Animatin is coming along pretty good!

[gregorya]

Nice background. the light makes the buildings stand out.

[mitsuki-youko]

Thanks @patrycja.lerch @daceronine and @gregorya for stopping by!

havent progressed on the animation BUT have been finally planning a layout for my artbook.

From the beginning i knew it was going to be a huge artbook but the text that I wrote to organize just wasn't enough for my pre-crastination personality. then I re-watched Trent Kaniuga's tips on making an artbook and realized what was missing!

I cannot really SEE my progress just through checking checkboxes and or crossing things off a list since this is such a huge proj. but if i do it like he does i can literally see the progress on my layouts. so I just finished making a layout thing for my artbook!

Close up looks like this and a generous rough calculation brings me to roughly 1600 pages for the artbook. This will probs take a few years but hey so long as i see these little black rectangles being filled in with colorful art, im sure i'll be happy with the progress!

This is what i would theoretically consider my terms 7-10 haha though i've been planning this for several years now and actually tried to make the artbook before (without the layout) but didnt get that far and only had like 20 pages.

now that my art is better i think im ready to embark on this adventure.

also.. this is basically me going thru and fully fleshing out the parts of my world that i forgot to build or basically neglected up til now to go build other parts XD

By the time this artbook is done it should get me a lot further along with my plot/characterbuilding too since world/plot/character building are directly correlated to each other. Plot is affected by characters and their motivation and characters are affected by their world and environment.

oh haha I was actually trying to put my layout into one lonnnnng line but apparently 50000 px is the max height for CSP so i had to make another row XD

I also left a line's worth of space below each section in case i needed to add notes or just more pages in the layout.

After a lot of research, I've settled on a file size and finally fiddled with the csp settings and actually bothered to understand how to use the cmc settings XD

Which btw if ur curious looks like this for the artbook

The manga file also has the same settings but with the A4 Size as B5 (ie 1 size down instead.)

Won't know how accurate this is til i draw it out but it could be up to or over this count

Oh I have also been looking into 3d modeling and architecture design since it could probs help me design my enviros better and be a good reference esp for hard perspective designs.

here is a rly good vid i found about architecture design:

Also trying out fonts for the cover of my artbook.. Problem: Have way too many fonts in the CSP fontlist.

Solution: open fontbook on my mac to see which ones i actually downloaded XD

In case anyone is interested this https://www.fontspace.com has some rly nice fonts. Make sure if you want to print someday, check the Commercial Use box. Here's my collection for scifi fonts: https://www.fontspace.com/collection/scifi-fonts-cx6238l

I ended up liking the Yeysk one the most

[daceronine]

Oh damn that's ambitious. Looks like it's going to be huge! Looking forward to seeing the project progress as you tick those boxes!

From my end I plan to start small, much smaller. Just print a few pages, like 10, for testing measure, then the one shot, hopefully more accuratly, and we'll see where we go from there. An artbook is a great idea as material accumulates and definitely a worthy project for the following terms (Though I'm not sure what they're about just yet xD).

[patrycja.lerch]

That's a lot. Can't wait to see your progress on this!

[gregorya]

This looks like a huge undertaking. I look forward to seeing your progress. Trent has some good videos. I didn't know he had one on making an art book.

[mitsuki-youko]

Thanks @daceronine @patrycja.lerch and @gregorya
Aside from the artbook which I've not made too much progress on yet, I'm also relearning Blender.

This time, i hope to fully learn it and maybe not master it but get as close to that as i can - since if i want to be able to create cool environments to reference, (faster than drawing them out with no direct reference) i'll need to learn blender.

Used to not be rly into 3D but after seeing lots of those rly cool glowying cyberpunk cityscapes, i wanna be able to make something like that too. Ofc, in my comic i'd draw it out myself rather than just paste a 3d image in but having the ref def helps and is also a fun extra something to have in the artbook...

As with any program and/or skill i learn, i always wanna be able to make everything myself So I am also diving into learning Mapcaps, Textures/PBRs, and HDRI's

I thought all 3 would be super hard but i think the "hardest" one seems to be making Textures but its not really THAT hard either its just a lot of tweaking.

^ Followed this tut and since im on a mac and Materialize is a windows only software, i had to do a side detour there. Luckily while learning/practicing ethical hacking, i have my own windows virtual machines so i just booted one up and downloaded Materialize there and took a while trying to get the share folder to work between my mac and the windows machine lol.

But anyways I took this pic on my phone (Ok no clue why Cubebrush is uploading this image sideways but its supposed to be rotated to the right so that the leaf and tree is vertical lol):

Cropped the top part of it to avoid the shadow from the lil leaf:

Popped it into Materialize with these settings:

Diffuse (basically the orig pic):

Height Map:

AO Shading:

To get this final material:

Here's the Tile Map settings too:

Then I followed this tut to use the PBR in Blender:

Not the best texture ever, but i think its decent for my very first texture

Here's a vid of me using it in blender as a test:

And Here is a fun test to put the wood on a plane as im following the doughnut tut from Blender Guru

[daceronine]

Yea that actually looks really good for a custom made texture! That's actually a really good idea, to just take photos and create textures from them. Even for 2D drawing it should come in very handy!

[patrycja.lerch]

Looks cool! Good luck with learning blender!